What are they gaining and what am I losing?
A lot.
The mobile device ecosphere is similar but dramatically more "data-holistic" than the average computer. So, they gain biometrics, general usage, other apps visited before and after the app, geolocation and associated data, and all the things agreed to by the app user via whatever store they download it from and that data collection, but also with their own set of agreed upon collection. The mobile data phone is an amazingly horrific antiprivacy device.
Yep. I find myself self-censoring in my house because of them.
That reminds me of another question I had. What is a good alternative to the smartphone? Are there still flip phones available without location capabilities and no internet? I really don't need a super computer in the hills cutting down trees. Everything I've found so far has most of the bells n whistles.
There's the really cheapo flip phones by companies like alcatel but they still have location settings and oh, your daily koran app and prayers.
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